Movies like A Hidden Life
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A Hidden Life (2019)
32K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II and is executed by them in 1943. Opening at Jägerstätter’s home in Austria’s countryside, the film follows Franz and his wife, Fani, along their path of resistance. Told through real wartime letters, this love story finds the couple in conflict with the members of their close-knit town, their church, their government, and even their friends — all of which brings them to a dramatic choice.
Style:
period piece, sexy, thought provoking, costume drama, psychological, political, romantic, captivating, disturbing, retro ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war two, conscientious objector, clergy, prisoner, prison life, farmer, catholic, trial, travel, anti war, courtroom, military, love, treason, world war, shoah, lawyer, husband wife relationship, arrest, biopic, torture, interrogation, humiliation, chaos, prison ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 2019, 2010s, year 1942, year 1939, year 1943
Place:
austria, germany, alps, berlin germany
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Most similar movies to A Hidden Life
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, period drama and emotional films with plots about world war two, world war, war, nazi, death, husband wife relationship and holocaust mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres. Some movies like A Hidden Life: Resistance (2020), The Railway Man (2013), The Edge of Love (2008), The English Patient (1996), The Counterfeiters (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style:
costume drama, powerful
Plot:
french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, resistance, world war, nazi occupied france, shoah, love, secret, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, munich germany, geneva switzerland, france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Switzerland, Australia, Thailand
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, epic, intense, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, war, world war two, japanese soldier, autobiography, biopic, japanese occupation, prison, life is a bitch, human spirit, haunted by the past, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1942
Place:
burma, england, asia, thailand, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous ...
Style:
romantic, period piece, melancholic, sweet, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, love triangle, pregnancy, couple relations, jealousy, writers, husband wife relationship, love, infidelity, making love, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, post world war two, 18th century
Place:
wales, europe, england, london
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, love story, desert, beautiful scenery, tragic love, power of love, love and romance, passion, adultery, sex scene, doomed love, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place:
sahara, italy, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, africa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style:
harsh, tense, brutal, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, counterfeit money, brutality, forgery, counterfeiter, prison, nazi concentration camp, war crime ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936, year 2008 ...
Place:
germany, europe, poland, austria, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
398K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style:
psychological, costume drama, harsh, disturbing, epic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi, war, nazism, suicide, fascism, holocaust, national socialism, dictatorship, third reich, paranoia ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, bavaria ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, nazi germany, nazi officer, gestapo, german soldier, nazi occupation, royalty, espionage, conspiracy, german army, love, sex scene ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 1920s, year 1934
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style:
erotic, romantic, sexual, romantic drama, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbtq, lesbian interest, holocaust, gays and lesbians, woman in danger, nazi, society, forbidden love, couples ...
Time:
ancient times, year 1999, 1940s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
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50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style:
factual, costume drama, rough, sad, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, marriage, hiding place, shoah, nazi occupied poland, women, zookeeper, world war, biopic ...
Time:
1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, period piece, romantic drama ...
Plot:
nazi, politics, writers, nazi germany, third reich, moral dilemma, state affairs, society, political unrest, wartime life, holocaust, illicit affair ...
Time:
1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1937, year 1933 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, paris france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of ...
Style:
exciting, period piece, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, war, art theft, art, nazi germany, painting, nazism, nazi, gold bar, stolen gold, treasure hunt, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 2014, year 1977, year 1945, year 1943 ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, austria, england ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, childhood, nazi, adoption, nazi germany, war, human spirit, against humanity, death, youth, nazism ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, ancient times, year 1941, 2010s ...
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
37%
16K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Germany, Romania
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film "Amen." examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein, a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS who is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. Moreover, he is ...
Style:
sincere, political, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, world war two, concentration camp, politics, pope, christian, ss, conscience, nazi, nazism, priest ...
Time:
1940s, year 2002, 1930s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
germany, poland, rome italy, italy, austria ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish ...
Style:
art house, sexy, breathtaking, visually stunning, visually appealing ...
Plot:
farmer, love triangle, impossible love, farm, train, love, autumn, harvest, passion, childhood, class differences, photograph ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1978, turn of the century, pre world war one
Place:
usa, chicago, texas, midwest, austin texas
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, estrangement, orthodox jew, youth, confined, shoah, survival, world war, self discovery ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, post world war two
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall (Barry Atsma) is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. He doesn’t have to think about it for long. With his brother Gijs van Hall (Jacob Derwig), ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, touching, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, resistance, soldier, war hero, nazi, sibling relationship, german occupation, shoah, friends, dictatorship, dictator, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1944
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, emotional, costume drama, political thriller ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, defiant, anti semitism, ss, family relations, danger, life is a bitch, confined, world war, spy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, year 1957, year 1939, year 1962 ...
Place:
europe, hungary, berlin germany, switzerland, budapest ...
Similarity:
36%
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16K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, sincere, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, survival, hitler, children, coming of age, youth, war, concentration camp survivor, children in wartime, child as adult ...
Time:
year 2012, post world war two, 90s, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, russia, hamburg germany, berlin germany, poland ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense ...
Plot:
war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, holocaust, nazi, mission, world war, israeli, chase, manhunt, secret agent ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, year 1939, year 1954, year 1945 ...
Place:
israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
Similarity:
35%
1.0M
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
Similarity:
35%
38K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Style:
romantic, inspirational, melancholic, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
interracial couple, racism, marriage, interracial marriage, interracial love, interracial romance, husband wife relationship, supreme court, civil rights, love story, forbidden love, miscegenation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s, year 2016, 2010s ...
Place:
virginia, washington d.c., richmond virginia, usa, australia
Similarity:
35%
198K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Style:
dramatic, epic, motivational, uplifting, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, war, survival, soldier, jail, motivation, biopic, prisoners of war, hopes, prison, torture, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2014, 2010s, 1930s ...
Place:
japan, pacific ocean, asia, germany, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, grim, period piece, dark ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, propaganda, nazi germany, hitler, biopic, manipulation, political corruption, husband wife relationship, infidelity, flashback, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
35%
671K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, christian film, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, war, soldier, conscientious objector, survival, us military, combat, american soldier, religion, bible, military, pacifist ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, 20th century, middle ages, year 1945 ...
Place:
okinawa japan, japan, tennessee, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style:
period piece, sentimental, touching, realistic, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, countryside, friendship, love, farm, working class, wartime life, war, woman, wine, women, young woman ...
Time:
1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, bristol ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
Style:
philosophical, melancholic, emotional, visually stunning, art house ...
Plot:
love, love story, love affair, crumbling marriage, marriage, love triangle, passion, horse ranch, extramarital affair, amor, starting over, introspection ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 90s, 21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking ...
Style:
factual, political, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, nazi, politics, world war two, conspiracy, third reich, ss officer, shoah, war crime, brutality, racism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, poland
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
TRAUTMANN tells the story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by ...
Style:
motivational, costume drama, inspirational, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
football, husband wife relationship, goalkeeper, father daughter relationship, love and romance, world war, rivalry, courage, college, ambition, transformation, post war ...
Time:
year 1948, 20th century, 1940s, year 1956, year 1949 ...
Place:
germany, england, manchester
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sentimental, captivating, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, lesbian, love triangle, bisexual woman, spanish civil war, sexual relations, orgy, sex scene, nazi, love story, nazi occupation, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 1920s, 1930s, year 1938 ...
Place:
paris france, spain, france, england, germany ...
Similarity:
34%
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